Susan Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9266-4300 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world
The world is becoming increasingly characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). How education systems, policies and practices respond to the challenges facing young people and their communities is of critical importance, including questions of pedagogy and curriculum in mainstream and alternative education contexts. Knowing how systems and institutions can address the challenges of a VUCA world is important in strivi…
Understanding doctoral students’ needs for thesis discussion writing and supervisory curriculum development
The global blossoming of doctoral education calls for a better understanding of doctoral candidates' needs concerning thesis writing. Although scholars proclaim the particular difficulty of writing a thesis discussion, empirical studies on doctoral students' needs for the discussion chapter are insufficient. To fill the gap, using individual interviews, we investigated seven candidates' views on challenges and helpful resources, noting L1/L2 stud…
Banksy’s Street Art
Internationalization of doctoral study means more doctoral writers working across language and cultural borderlands. How can their access to a self-reliant understanding of English language be enabled? How can they acquire the confidence to find their textual voice? How can academics supporting these writers help them to adapt to western cultures of thinking, learning, and communicating? Behind this article sits an extensive investigation into ho…
Working in the borderlands
The early history of the doctoral degree is largely lost in time, but the modern manifestation that recognises a significant and original contribution to knowledge creation is barely 200 years old (Simpson 2009). Despite the Latin inflections of the philosophiae doctor or ‘PhD’ (as it has been traditionally known in most contexts), it remains a young pedagogic form. For most of its infancy and across most countries, it has been predicated on the …
Inspiring desire
Doctoral learning entails transition from experienced student to stance-defending researcher, exposed to international critique: a disorientation and reorientation into a new identity. Arts and Humanities candidates typically navigate these moves without much of a map, choosing their own topics, avoiding the more externally defined approach available to STEM students, and mapping out their own research routes. They are often driven by desire and …
Kenny
It's a commonplace that modern textual production is inevitably informed by cultural legacy; this paper shows that Kenny [Jacobson, Clayton, dir. 2006. Melbourne: Thunderbox Films], an Australian mockumentary, fits within a longstanding genre of humorously packaged social criticism. We show that Kenny's unusual hero has a Celtic predecessor Niall (circa 1390), a leader willing to subject himself to abjection for the greater good. Amidst their hum…
From Eden to Agora
E-learning is not just a learning and teaching innovation; it also signals a shift in human cognition and communication. The lexicon of e-learning borrows from the barren lexicon of information science: of users, usage and usability Deep e-learning requires a more fecund idiom, a new myth: of the digital agora, an e-learning 'trading zone' (Mills and Huber, 1995). Here we reflect on the process of shaping an electronic version of our generic doct…
From Eden to Agora
E-learning is not just a learning and teaching innovation; it also signals a shift in human cognition and communication. The lexicon of e-learning borrows from the barren lexicon of information science: of users, usage and usability (Gould and Lewis, 1985), or of information-seeking and affordances (Pirolli and Card, 1999). Deep e-learning requires a more fecund idiom, a new myth: of the digital agora, an e-learning ‘trading zone’ (Mills and Hube…
English as an additional language (EAL) viva voce
Is the doctoral viva voce a reasonable method of examination? This exploratory paper proposes that the doctoral viva voce (oral examination) is a slightly different hurdle for doctoral candidates for whom English is an additional language (EAL, also termed ESL) than for those whose first language is English. It investigates the experience of 11 EAL candidates at a New Zealand university to provide phenomenographical insight to the viva voce as an…
Original knowledge, gender and the word’s mythology
Using mythology as a generative matrix, this article investigates the relationship between knowledge, words, embodiment and gender as they play out in academic writing’s voice and, in particular, in doctoral voice. The doctoral thesis is defensive, a performance seeking admittance into discipline scholarship. Yet in finding its scholarly voice, the Arts Humanities doctorate also constructs the academic identity of its author. Creating identity is…
Old Lamps for New
The mnemonic techniques of the past, like mind maps, metaphors, and narrative theory, offer research students, especially doctoral candidates, another cognitive support. These techniques pre-date computers (and possibly literacy), so shift cognitive organization from the page or the computer screen to the mind. This article compares early memory theory and the process of research thinking. Three useful pointers to the thesis writer emerge from mn…
Contributions to the Historical Statistics of the United States
Contributions to the Historical Statistics of the United States
Preventing accidental injury to young children in the home using volunteers
Accidental injury in the home is a major cause of death and ill-health among young children. Reducing home safety hazards by the use of safety devices such as stair barriers and safety taps has the potential to prevent home injuries. Little is known about levels of home safety hazards or how to encourage parents to reduce hazards. The Safe Place Project examined parents' knowledge of home safety and the prevalence of safety hazards in homes where…
Original knowledge, gender and the word’s mythology
Using mythology as a generative matrix, this article investigates the relationship between knowledge, words, embodiment and gender as they play out in academic writing’s voice and, in particular, in doctoral voice. The doctoral thesis is defensive, a performance seeking admittance into discipline scholarship. Yet in finding its scholarly voice, the Arts Humanities doctorate also constructs the academic identity of its author. Creating identity is…
Understanding doctoral students’ needs for thesis discussion writing and supervisory curriculum development
The global blossoming of doctoral education calls for a better understanding of doctoral candidates' needs concerning thesis writing. Although scholars proclaim the particular difficulty of writing a thesis discussion, empirical studies on doctoral students' needs for the discussion chapter are insufficient. To fill the gap, using individual interviews, we investigated seven candidates' views on challenges and helpful resources, noting L1/L2 stud…
Inspiring desire
Doctoral learning entails transition from experienced student to stance-defending researcher, exposed to international critique: a disorientation and reorientation into a new identity. Arts and Humanities candidates typically navigate these moves without much of a map, choosing their own topics, avoiding the more externally defined approach available to STEM students, and mapping out their own research routes. They are often driven by desire and …
Preventing accidental injury to young children in the home using volunteers
Accidental injury in the home is a major cause of death and ill-health among young children. Reducing home safety hazards by the use of safety devices such as stair barriers and safety taps has the potential to prevent home injuries. Little is known about levels of home safety hazards or how to encourage parents to reduce hazards. The Safe Place Project examined parents' knowledge of home safety and the prevalence of safety hazards in homes where…
Contributions to the Historical Statistics of the United States
Contributions to the Historical Statistics of the United States
Old Lamps for New
The mnemonic techniques of the past, like mind maps, metaphors, and narrative theory, offer research students, especially doctoral candidates, another cognitive support. These techniques pre-date computers (and possibly literacy), so shift cognitive organization from the page or the computer screen to the mind. This article compares early memory theory and the process of research thinking. Three useful pointers to the thesis writer emerge from mn…
Original knowledge, gender and the word’s mythology
Using mythology as a generative matrix, this article investigates the relationship between knowledge, words, embodiment and gender as they play out in academic writing’s voice and, in particular, in doctoral voice. The doctoral thesis is defensive, a performance seeking admittance into discipline scholarship. Yet in finding its scholarly voice, the Arts Humanities doctorate also constructs the academic identity of its author. Creating identity is…
English as an additional language (EAL) viva voce
Is the doctoral viva voce a reasonable method of examination? This exploratory paper proposes that the doctoral viva voce (oral examination) is a slightly different hurdle for doctoral candidates for whom English is an additional language (EAL, also termed ESL) than for those whose first language is English. It investigates the experience of 11 EAL candidates at a New Zealand university to provide phenomenographical insight to the viva voce as an…
From Eden to Agora
E-learning is not just a learning and teaching innovation; it also signals a shift in human cognition and communication. The lexicon of e-learning borrows from the barren lexicon of information science: of users, usage and usability Deep e-learning requires a more fecund idiom, a new myth: of the digital agora, an e-learning 'trading zone' (Mills and Huber, 1995). Here we reflect on the process of shaping an electronic version of our generic doct…
From Eden to Agora
E-learning is not just a learning and teaching innovation; it also signals a shift in human cognition and communication. The lexicon of e-learning borrows from the barren lexicon of information science: of users, usage and usability (Gould and Lewis, 1985), or of information-seeking and affordances (Pirolli and Card, 1999). Deep e-learning requires a more fecund idiom, a new myth: of the digital agora, an e-learning ‘trading zone’ (Mills and Hube…
Kenny
It's a commonplace that modern textual production is inevitably informed by cultural legacy; this paper shows that Kenny [Jacobson, Clayton, dir. 2006. Melbourne: Thunderbox Films], an Australian mockumentary, fits within a longstanding genre of humorously packaged social criticism. We show that Kenny's unusual hero has a Celtic predecessor Niall (circa 1390), a leader willing to subject himself to abjection for the greater good. Amidst their hum…
Inspiring desire
Doctoral learning entails transition from experienced student to stance-defending researcher, exposed to international critique: a disorientation and reorientation into a new identity. Arts and Humanities candidates typically navigate these moves without much of a map, choosing their own topics, avoiding the more externally defined approach available to STEM students, and mapping out their own research routes. They are often driven by desire and …
Working in the borderlands
The early history of the doctoral degree is largely lost in time, but the modern manifestation that recognises a significant and original contribution to knowledge creation is barely 200 years old (Simpson 2009). Despite the Latin inflections of the philosophiae doctor or ‘PhD’ (as it has been traditionally known in most contexts), it remains a young pedagogic form. For most of its infancy and across most countries, it has been predicated on the …
Banksy’s Street Art
Internationalization of doctoral study means more doctoral writers working across language and cultural borderlands. How can their access to a self-reliant understanding of English language be enabled? How can they acquire the confidence to find their textual voice? How can academics supporting these writers help them to adapt to western cultures of thinking, learning, and communicating? Behind this article sits an extensive investigation into ho…
Understanding doctoral students’ needs for thesis discussion writing and supervisory curriculum development
The global blossoming of doctoral education calls for a better understanding of doctoral candidates' needs concerning thesis writing. Although scholars proclaim the particular difficulty of writing a thesis discussion, empirical studies on doctoral students' needs for the discussion chapter are insufficient. To fill the gap, using individual interviews, we investigated seven candidates' views on challenges and helpful resources, noting L1/L2 stud…
The place of pedagogy in an uncertain world
The world is becoming increasingly characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). How education systems, policies and practices respond to the challenges facing young people and their communities is of critical importance, including questions of pedagogy and curriculum in mainstream and alternative education contexts. Knowing how systems and institutions can address the challenges of a VUCA world is important in strivi…
Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Higher Education Practises and Engagement (3 works)